The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-12
PROMPT AID WAS SECT.

DR.. Steele, chief surgeon of the Toledo,
Peoria & Warsaw Railway. had come
on at once in q special train, and with
him TWO other surgeons and their as
sistants, from Peoria. also came, and
Drs. Martin, Baker, Flagross and John
son, and from every city whence the un-
fortunate exeursionists had come, their
physicians and friends hurried on to
beip them. Peoria had also DEL
eeations of the Redmen and An
cient Order of United Workmen,
numbers Of both societies being on the
ill-fated train. Soon after 8 o'clock in
the morning there were plenty of peo-
ple to do the work that needed prompt
attention. In the town hall was che
main hospital, and In it anxious and
serrowful relatives were soothing the
sufferers, querYing the attending sur
geons as they bound up the wounds,
and insisting that there must be hope.
DOWN IN THE DEAD HOUSE
mothers, brothers, sisters, wives and
children tearfully inspected each face
as it was uncovered, and sighed as the
features were unknown or cried out in
anguish when the well-knoWn face,
fearfully mangled, yet clearly recogniz-
able, was revealed. The entire capacity
of the village was taxed, and kind
hearted women drove in from miles to
give their gentle administrations to the
sufferers.
No sooner had the wreck occurred
than q scene of robbery commenced.
Some
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heartless and with only criminal in
stincts, was on hand, like the guerillas
who throng a battle field the night
after the conflict. to filch from the dead
from their mesgre pay; stealing
even the bronze medals, rob-
bling from the children of heroes
the emblems of their fathers bravery.
So, last night, did these human hyenas
plumber the dead from their terrible
accident. and took even the shoes which
covered their feet. Who these wretches
are is not now known. Whether they
were band of pickpockets who &C
companied the train, or some robbing
gang who were lurking in the vicinity
cannot be said. The horrible suspicion,
however, exists that there are many
who give the credit that the accident
was
DELIBERATELY PLANNED CASE OF TRAIN
WRECKIEG,
and that the bridge was set on fire by
miscreants who hoped to size the
opportunity offered, and the fact
that the bridge was so far consumed
when the train came along, and the
added fact that the train was an hour
and half late are pointed out as evil
dences of a careful conspiracy. It
seems hardly possible that men could
be so lost to all ordinary feelings which
animate the basest of the human race |;
but still, men who will rob dead men,
who will steal from the dying, will
plumber the wounded held down by
broken beams of a wrecked car, and
whose death by fire seemed imminent,
can do most anything which is base,
and that is what these
FIENDs IN HUMAN FORM
did. They went into the cars when the
fire was burning fercely underneath,
and when the poor wretches who were
penned there begged them for God
sake to help them out, stripped them
of their watches and jewelry, and
searched their pockets. When the dead
bodies were laid out in the cornields
these hyenas turned them over in their
search for valuables, and that the
plumber was done by an organized
gang was proven by the fact that this
morning, sixteen purses, Ill empty were
found in a heap. 1t was a CHASTITY
plundering. Had the plunderers been
caught this afternoon, they would
surely have been lynched.
PEORIA, August 11.-SeveIal thousand
people were at the depot this afternoon,
when the train arrived bearing the first
of the wounded from Chatsworth. The
crowd was so large and so eager to OBJ
tain q view that it was difficult to con-
troll it. Accounts of the disaster were
obtained from several passengers on
the train.
Mr.. J, NJ. Tenery was in the first
sleeper and said: 1 felt three distinct
shocks and then heard grinding sound =,
and on looking out of the car in which
l was, directly over the fire, which was
slowly blazing on the stringers of the
bridge, | got out in safety, and the
scene presented to the eye and ear was
one wish I could forever efface from
NV memory, but know l cannot.
THE sHRIEKs OF THE DYING
and the faces of the dead will always
stav with me. To add to the horror, it
was pitch dark, save for the light of the
fire under the sleeper, which lighted the
faces of those about, only to make their
fear and anguish visible. On the mouths
of most of the corpses could be
seen foam, which showed that they died
in agony. AS fast as possible we secured
some feeble lights, but the wind blew
them out, and about 2 o'clock the rain
poured in torrents on the unprotected
and diving in the hedges and ccrndelds
adjacent. Our efforts we're directed be-
tween trying to put out the fire and
rescuing the dying, whose cries for help
were
HEARTREHDING INDEED.
One poor fellow whose legs were
crushed beneath the timbers, cried out,
in his agonies: "Relief, or will kill
myself" which, in a short time, he did
by shooting himself with re-
volver which he took from his POCKET.
Mothers ran wildly while crying for lost
children, and wives for husbands.
Strong men were weeping copious tears
Ovar rho forus of their haIOyed wives,